Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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